Intelligent Image Retrieval Techniques: A Survey

AbstractIn the current era of digital communication, the use of digital images has increased for expressing, sharing and interpreting information. While working with digital images, quite often it is necessary to search for a specific image for a particular situation based on the visual contents of the image. This task looks easy if you are dealing with tens of images but it gets more difficult when the number of images goes from tens to hundreds and thousands, and the same content-based searching task becomes extremely complex when the number of images is in the millions. To deal with the situation, some intelligent way of content-based searching is required to fulfill the searching request with right visual contents in a reasonable amount of time. There are some really smart techniques proposed by researchers for efficient and robust content-based image retrieval. In this research, the aim is to highlight the efforts of researchers who conducted some brilliant work and to provide a proof of concept for intelligent content-based image retrieval techniques

Content Based Image Retrieval by Preprocessing Image Database

Increase in communication bandwidth, information content and the size of the multimedia databases have given rise to the concept of Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). Content based image retrieval is a technique that enables a user to extract similar images based on a query, from a database containing a large amount of images. A basic issue in designing a content based image retrieval system is to select the image features that best represent image content in a database. Current research in this area focuses on improving image retrieval accuracy. In this work, we have presented an ecient system for content based image retrieval. The system exploits the multiple features such as color, edge density, boolean edge density and histogram information features. The existing methods are concentrating on the relevance feedback techniques to improve the count of similar images related to a query from the raw image database. In this thesis, we propose a dierent strategy called preprocessing image database using k means clustering and genetic algorithm so that it will further helps to improve image retrieval accuracy. This can be achieved by taking multiple feature set, clustering algorithm and tness function for the genetic algorithms. Preprocessing image database is to cluster the similar images as homogeneous as possible and separate the dissimilar images as heterogeneous as possible. The main aim of this work is to nd the images that are most similar to the query image and new method is proposed for preprocessing image database via genetic algorithm for improved content based image retrieval system. The accuracy of our approach is presented by using performance metrics called confusion matrix, precison graph and F-measures. The clustering purity in more than half of the clusters has been above 90 percent purity

A picture is worth a thousand words : content-based image retrieval techniques

In my dissertation I investigate techniques for improving the state of the art in content-based image retrieval. To place my work into context, I highlight the current trends and challenges in my field by analyzing over 200 recent articles. Next, I propose a novel paradigm called __artificial imagination__, which gives the retrieval system the power to imagine and think along with the user in terms of what she is looking for. I then introduce a new user interface for visualizing and exploring image collections, empowering the user to navigate large collections based on her own needs and preferences, while simultaneously providing her with an accurate sense of what the database has to offer. In the later chapters I present work dealing with millions of images and focus in particular on high-performance techniques that minimize memory and computational use for both near-duplicate image detection and web search. Finally, I show early work on a scene completion-based image retrieval engine, which synthesizes realistic imagery that matches what the user has in mind.LEI Universiteit LeidenNWOImagin